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The Lovin' Spoonful-April 15 Special Issue ~ - A GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D. C. Friday, April 7, 1967 Lovin' Spoonful Featured In Yard Concert _ " . ..:v Popular Foursome : < '~, , : Big Name Concert Will Perform Here Presented At G. u.; Saturday The 15th $2.50, $3.50 Tickets The College Student Council's The nation's most popular music annual Spring Concert will feature group will perform live and in con­ the popular and talented Lovin' cert here at Georgetown Univer­ Spoonful in a two hour perform­ sity Saturday evening, April 15. ance Saturday, April 15, in McDon­ The' Lovin' Spoonful, picked by ough Gymnasium. The Spoonful, both Billboard and Cashbox maga­ ranked as last year's third best zines as America's top music at­ vocal group (behind the Beatles traction in 1966, will present a two­ and the Rolling Stones) by Cash- hour show at McDonough Gymna­ i' box Magazine, were also rated as sium on April 15. \ the third best producer of single The concert, which begins at records (again behind the Beatles 8 P.M. on the 15th, will feature and Stones) by the Billboard Hot such Spoonful hits as "Summer in 100 Survey of Billboard Magazine. the CIty," "Nashville Cat," "Day­ Beginning at 8: 00 in the evening, dream," "Do You Believe in the Spoonful will entertain an ex­ Magic," "Did you ever have to pected sell out crowd with all their Make up your Mind," "You Didn't hit songs, "Nashville Cat," "Sum­ Have To be So Nice," and their mer in the City," and many others latest chart-maker "Darlin' Be in their ragtime folksy style. It is Home Soon." this combination of blues, jug band Tickets for the concert have been music and ragtime with a twist of The Lovin' Spoonful. "Collectively we all make a pretty sensible human being." on sale since April 1. Priced at rock-and-roU that brought the four­ $3.50 and $2.50, the tickets have r some immediate acclaim when they been selling quickly both on campus joined forces back in 1965. Every and in the Washington area. I~ single record release they have cut Would You Believe-Still More Tickets are on sale each day at i has scaled the top three rungs of such campus locations as the Post 'i the hit parade, thousands have Office, The Stump, New South I flocked to their performances aU On The "Ever Lovin' " Spoonful! Cafeteria and Walsh Lobby. They i, across the country, and despite are also available at the University their tight and busy scheduling the Fresh out of their teens, four "Zal and I just wandered around to paint bottoms of boats with rust Bookstore, The East Campus Cor­ demand has far outgrown the sup­ boys who banded together under a the West Village telling each other paint. John was allergic to rust ner and at the three downtown ply. remarkably improbable name, the that when we needed a bass player paint so he went back to New York Super Music City Stores. In addi­ The group first got together in Lovin' Spoonful, have dipped into and a drummer, one would appear." and combined forces with Zal. tion, mail order reservations may I New York City, each from a dif­ the honey pot of the music of our John Sebastian, twenty-one, " ... and I don't know how it be placed by phone by calling plays guitar, harmonica, and auto­ happened, but all of a sudden no II, ferent background but with one big time and come up dripping with 337-3300. r thing in common; in one way or the sweet rewards . hit records harp. Born and raised in Green­ more things for free and like that, The Lovin' Spoonful is the sec­ another, they all had had some ex­ and lucrative personal appearances wich Village, John started playing and there I was, playing with ond Big Name Concert to be pre­ , perience in musical entertainment. noisy with the adulation of mini­ harmonica as a child and guitar at John." sented at Georgetown this year. In They began to sing in the Night skirted girls and long-haired boys. twelve. Lived in Italy for five Zal Yanovsky, twenty, lead gui­ the Fall, the East Campus spon­ I~, Owl Cafe in Greenwich Village but The Lovin' Spoonful-specifical­ years. After a year as a guitar­ tar is from Toronto, Canada, start­ sored the Righteous Brothers, also soon retreated to the basement of ly: John Sebastian, Zal Yanovsky, maker's apprentice, he worked on ed playing folk music at fifteen. He in McDonough. It is also the latest t the Albert Hotel where The Spoon­ Steve Boone and Joe Butler-all his own as a studio harmonica quit high school at sixteen and be­ in a succession of top flight groups ! ful soent the next two months prac­ wear their hair the conventional player, working with jug bands came a folk singer. He went to to appear on campus in recent ticing and working together. When length ... long. But their music is and some of the young city-coun­ Israel for ten months, returned, years, including Ray Charles, they emerged they returned to the not conventional rock'n'roU, nor is try blues musicians. Driven to de­ lived on streets-"... then lived Peter, Paul and Mary, the King­ Night Owl and became the Vil­ their language sparked with such spair by the byzantine power play in a laundromat for seven months ston Trio and Johnny Mathis. The lage's latest sensation. Crowds conventional hipsters' words and of commercial folk music, John re­ ... " He got a job as accompanyist Spoonful is a particularly attrac­ I started pouring in, record com- phrases as, "Like, man . ." and tired to Marblehead, Massachusetts for the Halifax Three for ten tive group because it will be ap­ (Continued on Page 2) "Don't blo'w your cool ..." where he intended to make sails. months. Crashed in flames in Cal­ pearing at the University at the But the man who said he wanted a ifornia, returned via two-passenger height of its popularity. ~ sailmaker really wanted someone (Continued on Page 3) Concert Chairman, Joe Solari, much earlier this week, urged all ~( Solari, O'Toole Planning Georgetown students to purchase i their tickets as early as possible. !For "A Really Big Show" The Lovin' Spoonful concert on Larry O'Brien, President-elect of :-: April 15 is being presented by the the Yard, Off-campus publicity; Ticket Sales Information ,1 Georgetown College Student Coun­ Junior Class President Dick Cant­ l: cil, in conjunction with the Spring lin, Campus Ticket Sales; Fresh­ , Concert Committee. The committee, man Class President Brian Phelan, Post Office 9-12 ~ with Joseph Solari as Chairman campus publicity; and Andy Hen­ ,:i and Steve O'Toole as Co-Chairman, dry (ColI. '69), gym ticket sales. New South 12-1-5-7 ~ has been working for the past sev­ Peter Love is serving as Adminis­ ~ eral months both to bring top trative Assistant. The Collegiate The Stump 11-2 ~ flight entertainment to the campus Club, under the direction of Club l' nnd more recently to handle the President Don Schaller, will do the Walsh 1-3 1 ny promotional and administra­ ushering at the concert, as well as \' tl details involved in the concert handling telephone ticket reserva­ ! P1 "entation. tions. Both Bookstores I In addition to Honorary Chair­ The Committee's work has been q man Yard President Mike Bren­ divided into two major areas. The Yard Office and i, nan, John Drummond, Solari and O'Toole and Fannan are running ~ O'Toole, the committee includes: the physical production of the con­ Super Music City Stores ,1, Jack Fannan (ColI. '68), produc­ cert, including sound and lighting, t tion; Senior Class Rep. Joe seating, security, etc. With the as- t. O'Brien, Executive Assistant; (Continued on Page 2) Spring Concert Committee tuning up for April 15. " Page Two' rHE HOYA Friday, April 7,196~ Top Group Concert Committee , : (Continued from Page 1) (Continued from Page 1) panies began to make offers, and sistance of a large number of sub­ before long booking agents were committees, Chairman Solari is constantly knocking at their door; handling publicity, promotion and they were on their way. ticket sales. Promotional activities Attributing their meteoric rise include spots on WEAM and i~riority Press to fame or their popularity with WPGC, advertisements in the children and adults alike to any­ "Post" and "Star" and additional thing particular is almost impos­ ads in Washington university news­ Printing • Duplicating • Advertising sible. Perhaps Robert Shelton of papers. the New York Times best explains Both Yard President Brennan 1120 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington their success: "The easy musical­ and Concert Chairman Solari wish ity, the fluent use of instruments, Call 525-2665 and the expertise of their arrange­ to express their thanks and the ments make the Lovin' Spoonful thanks of the College Council to stand out from the herd of rock'n' the many committee members who The only printer willing to do the job "your way." roU bands ... In fact the national are working hard to make the popularity of the Lovin' Spoonful Spoonful concert the most success­ Just over the bridge in Rosslyn makes good esthetic sense." ful in Georgetown history. The Office of the College Dean extends its best wishes to The Yard Office and the College Student Council -a continuous tradition of responsible student leadership- Yes, Georgetown there will be a Diplomat's Ball Sincerely yours, Louis Armstrong Petula Clark Jerry Lee Lewis f F"day. April 7. 1967 THE HOYA Page Three J " The Spoonful Birth (Continued from Page 1) M.G.
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